I don’t get altering past books/cartoons/whatever. Just slap a disclaimer on them about how they were a product of their time.
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Big Brother says who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
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“Mrs Twit is no longer beastly & ugly” but only “beastly” now.
Thank god for this.
Clearly “ugly” is far far worse than “beastly” 
Idiots
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I don’t allow hurtful or demeaning language in my house. If my child uses it, I’m very quick to correct it and explain why it’s hurtful.
I’ve never once thought “if they just had not read [insert book title] they wouldn’t use such language!”
If anything, my battle is the crap they’re exposed to on YouTube. In particular adolescents filming themselves screaming about the most insignificant situations while using similar hurtful language and portraying it as acceptable behavior.
It’s a constant battle. But it’s better to use such situations as teaching moments to guide them into being better people, when they come up. I try, anyway.
If they pick up a book, I’m excited for them. I’ve explained to them Enough times the language they might be exposed to in these books is not necessarily what they should use.
My opinion, anyway.
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I’m some what in the same way as you. Only thing, they dont use Youtube in the house and when they stay at their Grandpa’s house, they watch Mindcraft videos which I was so against the Mindcraft game back in the day.
As for books, they are both into Manga and we all know how Manga ca be. So I try my best to teach them the proper way to speak as I am the one with the potty mouth…
Like @davidbitterbaum
We can’t change the past (at least not in this timeline/universe) all we can do is learn from it and teach our kids the best we can.
No, but you can gradually erase or alter it.
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My son watches YouTube videos of people riding elevators and discussing technical specs of them. He loves elevators and escalators and will ride them until we say it’s time to go. I feel like he’s half the views on some of the YouTube clips with like 200 total views or so. He also loves automatic doors and going to Target. He’ll watch videos of people going into a Target via automatic doors. I don’t know how he finds this stuff.
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Totally unrelated to anything else but this is the odds and ends post. Anyone watch that new wild Netflix documentary Gunther’s Millions? It’s about a dog a Countess left millions of dollars to. Then the mansion, pop singing group, and sex cult enter the story. Then it actually gets weirder.
Sorry cant agree with that…
Rage Against The Machine
RATM got it from Orwell.
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I’ve always felt like the folks who were the first to point out issues like these in the books, were the same individuals whose actual poor “actions/behaviors” towards others were a far greater issue.
I raised two sons to adulthood who (I suppose I’m biased) are doing well and have wonderful families of their own now. By the standards of these pearl clutching revisionists, I did absolutely everything wrong in raising them.
It’s just not all that difficult. Your children are always watching you. Model good behavior. Do you best to demonstrate empathy, compassion, kindness to others… Treat your partner/spouse/children with love and respect. Simple stuff that will forever outweigh any trivial line in a book that may or may not have a negative connotation.
I detest the alteration of literary works. If you don’t like a line in a book then avoid the book or use it as a teaching moment. That’s too much work for some parents I suppose…
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Extraordinarily well-stated!
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I believe it was Goebels who said, and I’m paraphrasing, “accuse others of that which you are guilty of.”
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Yet, “Twit” is slang for idiot in England. So, naming of the prime derogatory attribute of the characters remains.
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It’s never going to stop until everything is wrapped in hard plastic with a number on it!
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